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Pyrite from
Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite2 photos of Pyrite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Tetrahedrite Subgroup1 photo of Pyrite associated with Tetrahedrite Subgroup at this locality.
Bismuth-bearing Tetrahedrite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Bismuth-bearing Tetrahedrite at this locality.
Malachite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Graphite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Graphite at this locality.
Electrum1 photo of Pyrite associated with Electrum at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:834702
Long-form Identifier:1:3:834702:2
GUID (UUID V4):2f60d5f8-764e-4444-8b14-a56db2e9c1b0
Localities for Pyrite in this Region
Beta Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Bourke's Luck Mine, Bourke's Luck, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Browns Hill Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Chi Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Clewer Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Columbia Hill Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Duke's Hill Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Frankfort Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Iota Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Jubilee Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Peach Tree Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Theta Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Vaalhoek Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
12.7km (7.9 miles) Frankfort Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
19.1km (11.9 miles) Vaalhoek Mine, Pilgrim's Rest, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
21.3km (13.2 miles) Rietfontein Mine, Sabie, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
22.4km (13.9 miles) Lone Creek Falls cave, Lone Creek Falls, Sabie, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
29.0km (18.0 miles) Potloodspruit farm, Lydenburg, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
41.0km (25.5 miles) Echo Caves, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
63.9km (39.7 miles) Helena Chrome Mine, Steelpoort, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
67.9km (42.2 miles) Booysendal North Mine, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
79.4km (49.4 miles) Magnet Heights carbonatite, Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
89.1km (55.3 miles) New Consort Mine, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield, eastern Transvaal, South Africa Roger Tyler a,b Noel Tyler...The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Received 31 May 1993; revised version accepted...from numerous stratiform ore bodies within the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield. The epigenetic stratiform ore bodies... The gold-silver emplacement model for the Pilgrim's Rest goldfield infers fluids derived from a deep-seated...Complex (Rustenburg Layered Suite) to the west of Pilgrim's Rest is thought to be the source of the auriferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Elandshoogte Mine, Sabie-Pilgrim's Rest goldfield, South Africa M. Harley 1,2 and E. G. Charlesworth...Charlesworth 2 1.2 Geological Survey of South Africa, Private Bag X112, 0001 Pretoria and 2 Department of...University of the Witwatersrand, 2050 PO Wits, South Africa Received: November 29, 1990/Accepted: April...Sequence sedimentary succession, in the SabiePilgrim's Rest goldfield, eastern Transvaal. These deposits have...tonnes of ore, have been mined in the Sabie-Pilgrim's Rest goldfield. Ore grades for these deposits range
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesothermal-Type Mineralization in the Sabie-Pilgrim's RestGoldField,SouthAfrica R. H. BOER, Economic...differentclass of mesothermal golddeposit at Sabie-Pilgrim's Restwhichis probably associated withtheBushveld...estimates indicate that the ore fluidsof the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restgoldfield,whichoccurs withinthe EarlyProterozoic...However, a numberof features distinguish the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restoresfromtypicalmesothermal deposits: (1) thepresence...cleargeneticlink.Characteristic features of the Sabie-Pilgrim's Restgoldfieldthatcorrespond to thosewithintheabovespectrum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, Universityof Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa Received: 29 March 1994/Accepted: 9 December... OIffaalshoek"~ Gntma]<~td L~SOTHO / '0 ~ SOUTH AFRICA /'J~ ' " ; ' a ~ L l l i "7~II17""";' ( 9...ironstone, mudstone and pyrite clasts. Microscopi c investigation of the pyrite clasts, which are up to...goethitic/hematitic iron oolites imbedded in a pyrite matrix (Fig. 4). The iron oolites exhibit a polycyclic...'freezing' of the ooids in rapidly precipitating pyrite (Reczko, 1994). 164 field data I FORMATIONS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
significance of the Transvaal succession of southern Africa and its equivalent in Western Australia E.S. Cheney...Campbellrand Subgroup, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa D.Y. Sumner and S.A. Bowring . . . . . . . ...Kuruman iron-formations, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa M. Ban and P. Dulski . . . . . . . . . . . ...organic carbon and pyrite in sediments from the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa H. Strauss and N.J...Archaean Campbell Group, westem Kaapvaal craton, South Africa W. Altermann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit, Birimian greenstone belt, Burkina Faso, West Africa Received: 9 July 1997 / Accepted: 23 March 1998...precipitated preferentially upon the surfaces of fractured pyrite grains in lowpressure sites (pressure shadow zones)...subsequently annealed fractures). The formation of the South Taparko deposit can be divided into a succession...zone á Gold á Quartz veins á Burkina Faso á West Africa Introduction The Early Proterozoic Birimian terranes...turbidite-hosted gold deposits (type 1 Au) (Loulo district in western Mali; Dommanget et al. 1985); (b) disseminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks of the Early Proterozoic Pine Creek Inlier rest unconformably on Late Archaean granitic basement...NNE (Fig. 1), plunge at 0-30 ~ to the north and south, and refold thrusts and recumbent folds. In the...~ at surface, but shallowing to about 3 ~ 1250m south of the original surface exposures (P.G. Simpson...parallel to the reef walls, and very minor podiform pyrite. Milky quartz occurs over the whole strike length...milky quartz is a stockwork of barren quartz + pyrite veins in wall-rocks up to 20 m away from the reef
Journal (issue)
Twenty-three, Number Three ® Articles Gold in South Africa ..............................................and this must have introduced him to many other local mineral collectors and possibilities for further...of this typically natrolite covered material for local dealers as well as himself. He used much of this...lent a distinction to his stock of minerals that local dealers found hard to match. During his time with...later years he just purchased from the miners and local dealers. He did not like to be hurried, and drove
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
especially true for the Transvaal region of southern Africa and the Pilbara region of Western Australia, where...highlight new research by young geologists in South Africa and abroad as well as a working group (convened...(convened by the National Geoscience Programme of South Africa) focused on the origin, depositional systems...compositions of sedimentary organic matter and pyrite in Transvaal sediments. These analyses add to a...subsequent deposition of gold in the Sabie-Pilgrim's Rest goldfield. However, while the former focuses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
secondary over­ growths, and crystal druses. All the rest, including the best specimens from the world's best...such as sulfuric acid derived from decompos­ ing pyrite that is often present. In arid regions, such as...tennantite but are highly deficient in chalcopyrite and pyrite. This means there is ample copper and arsenic avail­...from accidental chemical differences, there are local geological differences that cause each deposit to...secondary enrichment, local dif­ ferences in rainfall (even in the same mining district or geo­ logic terrane)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation in the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa a a a a L. J. Robb , E. G. Charlesworth...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Republic of South Africa Version of record first published: 09 May 2007...mineralisation in the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International...mineralisation in the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa L. J. ROBB, E. G. CHARLESWORTH, G. R. DRENNAN...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Republic of South Africa. The Witwatersrand Basin is a structural remnant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were basinwide events, rather than the result of local processes. Fluid inclusion data for the quartz indicates...mineralization in the Late Archaean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, remains a matter of high interest, but also...are quartz, phyllosilicates, organic matter and pyrite. Successions of fracture-coatings and cross-cutting...second-generation uraninite. 6. Sul®de minerals (pyrite, galena and chalcopyrite) were precipitated relatively...in®lling of many of the fractures is dominated by pyrite or pyrite±quartz mixtures in which the fractures were
Book
1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...controls of intracontinental alkaline magmatism in Africa 194 3.5.2. The Damaraland alkaline province, Namibia...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation; metamorphogenic...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic...ofthe Damara and Irumide orogens, Soutbwestern Africa, and the Mid Continent Rift System, USA 9.3.1.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Sciences, 26 Baiwanzhuang Road, Xicheng District, Beijing 100037, China Faculty of Earth Resources...age (280–290 Ma) of the granite porphyry in the district indicate a link between the Hercynian magmatism...Geological Sciences, 26 Baiwanzhuang Road, Xicheng District, Beijing 100037, China. E-mail address: dingchengwude@163...Olympiada and Witwatersberg goldfields (South Africa), the Blackbird district (USA), and the Yindongpo, Woxi,...2002; Liu and Yang, 2002). The rocks of the mine district belong to the Zenglongchang and Agulugou Formations
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:... COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic and...Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria or........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Transvaal carbonate platform, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa Dawn Y. Sumner Department of Geology, University...Park, 2000 South Africa e-mail: njb@na.rau.ac.za © 2006 March Geological Society of South Africa ABSTRACT...~2.67 to ~2.46 Ga lower Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, consists of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate...carbonate platform of the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, is one such platform (Beukes, 1980; 1987; Sumner...folding and faulting in the Kheis Belt and the SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, 2006, VOLUME 109 PAGE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa M.A.H. Altigani, R.K.W. Merkle, R.D. Dixon ⁎...Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, Pretoria 0028,South Africa a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...first type occurs associated with sulphides (mainly pyrite), either as inclusions (10–30 μm) or as sub-microscopic...Greenstone Belt (BGB) of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa (Fig. 1), is one of the oldest granite-greenstone...the most important gold producing terrains in South Africa (Ward, 1995, 1999; Goldfarb et al., 2001; Brandl
Book (volume)
' This Kupferschiefer is cases. lean in this district, carrying only 1.4% of copper, and no silver,...fissures known as 'rucken' in the Mansfeld copper district also contain occasional nickelite, together with...with chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, calcspar, brownspar, ironspar, barite and rarely also...carry siderite, ankerite and quartz as a nickel pyrite and bismuth glance, nickeliferous iron gangue,...containing and ores of secondary formation. some pyrite, copper pyrite, pierite and volcanic tuffs 21. QUARTZ-COBALT
Report (issue)
••• ••• Rhodesia •• • ••• ••• ••• Union of South .Africa ••• ••• British Guiana ••• ••• ••• Canada ••...... Belgian Congo ••• ••• • •• ••• French West Africa •• • ••• ••• Madagascar ... •• • ••• ••• ••• Mexico...carry35576 A 3 6 ing metallic sulphides, especially pyrite ; often, also, as an impregnation of the country...Oregon and California, and the west coast of the South Island of New Ze.a land. 1 ' r 7 • • The...(c.o nglomerate.s) of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa; · the quart.z veins o,f the Kolar goldfield
Journal (volume)
Manriland Report Benue Dredge Berenguela Tin District *54 265 342 *380 203 109 270 69 271 5 H. A...(Torrington) Report 152 Bolivia, Berenguela Tin District of *369 H.A.Lewis Bolivia, Conditions in 277 Botha...*1'71 British Columbia Zinc Industry *31 British South Africa Charter 214 Broken Hill Block 10 Report 151...Bastin, Edson S Pitchblende Behrens, Broken Hill South Silver Brunton, D. W. and Davis, Bullfinch Proprietary...Graphite-coated (p.*.) Diamonds in German South-West Africa (p.t.) Diamonds, Origin of F. W. North Diffusion
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Socialist Republic N.T. N.Y. Neb. Nev. Scotia South Wales Northern Territory Northwest Territories ...Socialist Republic South Australia Ind. Indiana S.C. South Carolina Kan. S.D. South Dakota Ky. Kansas...Australia British Mich. N.J. N.M. Columbia District of Columbia New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico...(Scotland) Aberdeen (South Africa T2- -429 27 T2- -412 35 : T2- -687 15 District) Aberdeen Angus cattle...Abiogenesis Abitibi (Quebec Regional County Municipality) T2- -666 8 371.254 153.93 371.26 658.311 25
Book
India and Australia—a course was pursued from South Africa through Ceylon, India, Burma, Malay Peninsula...are expressly due. THE AUTHOR. Johannesburg, South Africa. February, 1908. CONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER...Madras and Ceylon.—17. British Guiana.—18. West Africa C-12 CHAPTER II INDIAN EMPIRE Mica and Manganese...French company.—10. Tronoh mines.— 11. Batu Gajah district.—12. Gopeng hydraulicking.—13. Pioneer dredges... Standard of wages ------ 91-101 CHAPTER X NEW SOUTH WALES Review of Minekal Production 1. Comparisons
Journal (issue)
charges. foreign payments remittance may be made in local currency, without surcharge, to the following people...Oeepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1 N8 South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenklool...Conklin (Kent, CT) J. M. Coutts (Johannesburg, South Africa) David Crawford (Rockford, IL) Wilson W. Crook...atmosphere of underground mining. the navor of local cultures. and the historical background of these...themselves. photographing the localities, collecting local mies, arrang­ ing for the finest professional photographs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structural evolution of the Pataz gold mining district: Implications for the timing and origin of the...is that of a rift and graben terrain. The Pataz district (the northern part of the Pataz–Parcoy area) is...batholith was most extensive in the northern Pataz district where the fault-controlled western contact of...the Pataz district. The results are used to construct a geological history of the Pataz district, with implications...de la Rinconada and Sierras de Cordoba) form the South American segment of a trans-global orogenic gold
Journal (volume)
; > PAGE Abosso Gold Africa, Africa, Report German South-West German South-West African Railways...56 (p.t.) as Precipitant (p.t.) H. Mining District W. Turner {.c.l.) Amalgamated Properties v...Hill Proprietary, Steel for Shells Broken Hill South Silver Report Broomassie Brown, Gilmour E... Prospecting... Expansion of Plant German South-West Africa German South- West Africa Giant Mines Arthur GifEord...Diamond Mining at Kimberley Diamond Situation in South Africa Gold Gold Gold Gold 130, 161 Helping the
 
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